Three
Six-Figure Sales Totaling Over a Half Million Dollars Top This
Week's Domain Sales Chart

After seeing no reported sales above
$25,000 last week, a dozen went over that figure this week with
three soaring into the six-figure stratosphere. Sedo
had the largest of those with Mikihouse.com making $224,224.
That term will leave a lot of people scratching their heads but, as Raymond
Hackney explained in a post about the sale at TheDomains.com
today, it took a big payday to convince an American
company that had been using the domain to turn it over to a Japanese
firm with global operations, Miki ShokoCo. Ltd., who
decided they just had to have it.

Sedo also filled the #3 slot on our latest
all extension Top 20 Sales Chart
with CUN.com at $128,380. Sandwiched between those two
.coms was a huge new gTLD sale. 1.xyz claimed the
runner-up slot after changing hands for ¥1,180,000 ($181,720 at
today's exchange rate) in a premium name auction the .xyz registry
ran earlier this month on registrar West.cn's
platform.

Another sale from that auction, 66.xyz at
$65,450, is #4 on the Big Board with Sedo rounding out the
first five with the week's biggest ccTLD sale - ITJobs.eu
at $62,150.

By
Ron Jackson

The next ten spots were all taken by names
in the .xyz/west.cn auction (the registry posted a full
list of sales, including those lower than the $1,000
minimum we track, on their blog April 10). We've spent
some time since then taking a close look at the sales reported. With
the auction being conducted on a Chinese platform and almost all of
the buyers being Chinese these sales are considerably more difficult
to verify than most we have seen in the past, but under the criteria
for reporting sales (posted at a link
that has been at the bottom of our Top 20 Chart for the past decade)
we determined they are eligible.

The registry founder and a top official at
the registrar both went on record stating the sales were completed
at the prices shown and a check of the Whois records on all those
above four figures show completed transfers to a variety of buyers
(the top 16 sales went to 7 different buyers). Even so, we know many
are skeptical of high dollar new gTLD sales (not surprising given
there isn't much of a track record to go on because they are so
new).

In addition, the values often make little
sense to Western buyers who once considered letters like q, x, y and
z to be "bad" ones as they are seldom used in English
words. To the Chinese those are "good" letters and the
vowels so popular with us are the ones with little value. They also
generally place a much higher value on numerics. In short, more than
ever, value is in the eye of the beholder. As the number of
TLDs, as well as the number of geographical areas where active
domain markets develop (with their own particular likes and
dislikes) continues to increase, our approach will be to continue to try to treat all
reporting parties as equally as possible as long as the trust we and
the community at large place in them is not violated.

In addition to West.cn and Sedo, Zandibot
scored multiple chart entries this week, scoring twice with a pair
led by #15 Pompeii.com at $22,500. Here is how
all of the sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday,
April 24, 2016:

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The DN Journal Top 20Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. April 18, 2016 - Sun. April
24,
2016(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect April 27, 2016)

Domain

Sold For

Where
Sold

1.

Mikihouse.com

$224,224

Sedo

2.

1.xyz

¥1,180,000 = $181,720

West.cn

3.

CUN.com

€113,611 = $128,380

Sedo

4.

66.xyz

¥425,000 = $65,450

West.cn

5.

ITJobs.eu

€55,000 = $62,150

Sedo

6.

51.xyz

¥300,000 = $46,200

West.cn

7.

11.xyz

¥278,000 = $42,812

West.cn

8.

YM.xyz

¥256,000 = $39,424

West.cn

9.

98.xyz

¥232,000 = $35,728

West.cn

10.

HK.xyz

¥224,000 = $34,496

West.cn

11.

VIP.xyz

¥214,000 = $32,956

West.cn

12.

35.xyz

¥200,000 = $30,800

West.cn

13.

52.xyz

¥158,000 = $24,332

West.cn

14.

FW.xyz

¥152,000 = $23,408

West.cn

15.

DP.xyz

¥150,000 = $23,100

West.cn

16.

Pompeii.com

$22,500

Zandibot

17.

HX.xyz

¥124,000 = $19,096

West.cn

18.

Usurance.com

$17,500

GenieDomains

19.

WhiteHorse.com

$16,000

Sedo

20.

Diss.com

$15,535

Zandibot

Keep in mind that these are the highest
value cash only sales that have been reported to us in the
past week. This column is meant to be an educational tool,
not a complete list documenting ALL high
value domain sales. Such a list is impossible to produce
because many sales are kept private at the insistence of
buyers, sellers or both. Our procedure for verifying the
accuracy of domain sales reports is available here.

There were 13 more five-figure sales off the
chart led by Sedo's $15,086 sale of ITJobs.it. They
added $13,447 for Tuningteile.de, $12,000 for StrategicMarketer.com
and $11,300 apiece for three others - Cars.ch, MK.cc,
and MPharma.com. Cloudos.com brought another $10,099.

Elsewhere, GenieDomains.com
moved ProcessPoint.com for $15,000, SnapNames
sold Euphoric.com for $12,500 and Zandibot banked $12,500
for Teso.com. Also, West.cn reported three more .xyz auction
sales - ZT.xyz at $14,322, CK.xyz at $14,168
and 163.xyz at $12,628.

.Com Supporting
Cast

Sedo led the .Com Supporting Cast of
four-figure sales with CarFleet.com at $9,588. They
also scored with Botex.com ($5,537), Jiangang.com ($5,085) and
VRYJ.com ($4,999) and CloudSimple.com ($4,998).

WinthropCapital.com went for $4,803, Lambarene.com
returned $4,520 and three others - DinnerFriends.com, WCOF.com
and WhatsYourThing.com - drew $4,500 each. Sedo had 26
more four-figure sales ranging from $2,000
to $3,999 that are listed in the table below:

Elsewhere, Zandibot sold Kany.com for $5,000 and IndusDomains
booked $2,046 for StiegLarsson.com.

Country Codes

The ccTLDs were led by the five-figure sales
we told you about in the all extension section above with ITJobs.eu
setting the pace at $62,150, followed by the Italian
version of the same name, ITJobs.it at $15,086.
Sedo booked both of those and went on to sweep every entry on our
latest Country
Code Top 20 Sales Chart. They have
done that several times in this country code category that they have
traditionally dominated.

The highest sale in this category that you haven't
seen yet is a Russian domain, #6 Emsa.ru at $9,040.
Empire.co followed at $5,500 then another Russian
domain, Del-Arte.ru, stepped in to the #8 hole at
$4,520.

Great Britain's .co.uk led the extension
race with four chart entries. No other TLD has more
than two . Here is how the country
code leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, April 24,
2016:

Country
Code Top 20 Sales ChartHighest Reported
Domain Sales - Mon. April 18, 2016 - Sun. April 24, 2016(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect April 27, 2016)